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The Goddess
The Romance of the Kohinoor
Double Code of Morals
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The Most Imposing Mo
tion Picture Serial and
Story Ever Created
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Movie.
By Gouverneur Morris
and
Charles W. Ooddard
ttll. Ma Osaves.
bjuojaia wl ru Chapters.
Joiui AiueBuury la KUwl in ruit'oul
ocououi, ua ins wue, uuu h Auwhui
moi bea.aui wuuku, aiva irom uie
shoe. iWVlIK a -Jeru-ulU uMuit, "
I um)u by jrrof. euuier, " 01 uie
interests, ir uuo tne Aouuiiuck, wuere
she 1a teued in uie ci.iiu ot a c.vrn.
Fifteen yeais rnter Tommy Wurelay. "
baa just quarreit.'d Willi na euoiHea
iatnur, wauuuia into tua ouui ana i
tovers trie girl, now known as Celestla,
in corapauiy with ITof. e-Uilitor. Tommy
takes tba girl to New York, where sne
talis into tne dutches ol a noted pro
curess, but la able to win over tne
woman by her pecular hypnotic power.
Hera aba attract rreduie Uie rerrct,
who beoomea attached to her. At a bin
ulothlng laciory, where ahe goes to work,
she exercises her power over the girls,
ma is saved from being burned to death,
by Tommy. About tnia time RUlliter,
Barcmy and othera who are working to
gether, decide it te time to make uso ot
Celestla, who haa been trained to Wink
ot herself divine end come from
iieaven. The first place they send her la
to Bitumen, a mining town, where the
coal mlnera are on a. atrike. Tommy haa
gone there, too, and Mrs. Ounadort, wife
the mlnera' leader, falls In love with him
and denounces him to the men when he
spurns her. Celestla aaves Tommy from
betnir lynched, and also settles the strike
by winning over Kehr, the agent of the
homes, and Barclay, r. Mary Black
atone, who la also in love with Tommy,
tells him the story of Celestla. which aha
haa discovered through her Jealousy.
Kehr is named aa candidate for president
on a ticket that has Ktillltor's support,
and Tommy Barclay la named on the
miners "ticket Btilllter profesnea him
self In love with Celestla and wanta to
get her for himself. Tommy urgea her
to marry him. Mary Blackstune bribes
Mm. OunMlorf to try to murder Celestla,
while the latter la on her campaign tour,
traveling on a snow white trsba. . Mrs.
ttunsdorf la again hypnotised by Celestla
and the murder averted.
Stllllter hyrotirtfs ceiosua ana lures wr
ir hyi!Ot!ls ceiesua ana lures "
deserted Woods, where he forces
w n unrirr a mock marriage, per- :
fnrmml by himself. Me noimes i ne 11- .
Kra'?re ? trrerh- foowe3i7
film closely, ana Tommy is not r
havirg ren exploring the cave, hoping
to find Oelcstia there.
FOURTEENTH EPISODE.
Doesn't any of It seem familiar?"
Tummy asked.
She turned to him and threw her arms
round his neck, and began to cry like a
Httle child.
'Ile'nr' said Freddie '
"No," said Tommy stoutly. "Wstomed
out to be heaven after all. Beat It,
Fieddler
To Celestla the train seemed to mova
O Mlu. uw I
no faster than a snail. To get bacK w ,
the world in time to undo what she Baa .-
dono. before it should be too late, occu
pied her mind to the exclusion of almost
everything else. Stilliter was doad. His
influence had no longer power on her.
She became more rational and human
with every passed hour, and she became
no less sweet. v
They had waited at the cavs until old
man Smcllsgood came back with definite
news of saunter's death.
"Him plenty enough dead," he said,
and nodded repeatedly. Than, with a
mouth so innocent that even butter
wouldn't have melted In it, said:
"He net got a lot.ot money on him."
"Not now. I know that," said Tommy,
"as well an you do."
When at last they reached New Tor
they proceeded at once to Madison Square
Garden, where a tremendous pro-Barclay
mass meeting was in session. The tri
umvirate were all present. Celestla, in a
dark cloak, with a veil over her face,
waited outside with Freddie until Tommy
should signal her to enter.
He came presently.
Kturtevant ' la speaking." he said
quickly. "He's explaining how you, your
work done, have gone back to neaven
-and. by heaven, Celestla, they believe
hlra! Tou might think It was Matthew,
Mark, Luke or John addressing a lot of
early Christians; people are sobbing.
Better come now and get it over with."
Sturtevant broke off in the midst of
his peroration. A slim, white, command
ing figure was moving slowly toward him.
His Jaw dropped. Then he dropped to
his knees and, a look of rapture on his
face, he cried In a voice of thunder,
"Ccleatla!"
Even this piece of play-lactlng could
not save the sltuatioL for htm. The
people bad caught in his face the first
swift fleeting look of unutterable fright
and dismay. And now they had caught
sight of Celestla, and rose to her with a
great roar of sound.
he passed, slowly through them,
mounted the platform, turned, lifted one
hand a little, and there was silence.
She ssked them to be patient with her.
one am.it """" - - - 1
lone Irreparable harm in the world. But
it would be wonderful If they would
listen to her once more they had always
been so good to her.
And presently she had them enthralled
in the spell of her clear, sweet voice.
And she told them her. story from the
beginning. And when she had . finished
she Just stood and loked straight ahead
of her. And murmurs swept the vast
place, as little breeses go dappling over
smooth water. Then Celestla turned and
pointed to the triumvirate.
And a man with a voice like a trumpet
stood up In the midst of the ball and
started for the platform, shouting, "Kill!"
"Lynch r
The man was Ounsdorf.
Then hel broke loose. And the three
arch conspirators turned and, darting
between the curtains at the back of the
platform, fled for their Uvea.
But aobobdy hurt Celestla, or thought of
hurting her, and after a time Tommy got
her away and took her out of the city to
a little town in Westchester county, and
left here there, until he could get a
'icense to stay there with her.
i To Be Continued uy.)
Head It Her
In the center the "Kohinoor" diamond, 116 karats; on the extreme left the "drop" diamond, eut from the Culli
n;ui, 516 karats, and on the extreme rirjht the Square Brilliant, 309 2-16 karats, also part of the Oullinnn. Nine gems were
rut from the Cullinan, of which two others are here shown, weighing 62 and i2 karats. The value of the stones runs into
t he millions.
By GARRETT P. 8ERVIS8.
Not long ago a friend asked me to
recommend to him a good story, full of
mystery and romance, with which he
could while away the tedium of. an entire
day of solitude, during which ttm would
not have a soul to speak, to." Conceal
ing my opinion of the desperate state of
the human being who cannot find suf
ficient material In his own mind to carry
him through a single diurnal period, I
replied: "Then read Wllkte Collins 'Moon
Stone.' " ., ..
"By Jove!" ho aald, flapping his leg,
"the nam alone' takes me! Is it about
tho adventures of some famous diamond
or other gem?"'..
"Tea." '
"Then HI aure- read 1V Much
obliged." " .
The enthusiasm of my friend for the
romance ot precious stones expresses a
curious passion that lies deen In human
nature. Wo all like to hear about dia
monds, rubles, emeralds and other rare
gems, even In the abstract; and when It
comes to particular stones - that have
centred the fates of kingdoms about
themselves, h-ive Inspired plots Involving
' - - - ...j kln kvn mmA I h for.
;'ueen ,,d ng. navs made tna for-
tunes or caused the fall of great of-
f leers of state, -and have even led to
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tho
interest beoomea more Intense. In fact,
the sober histories of not a few famous
precious stones are more Interesting than
any Invented story. ;
Take, for Instance, the great diamond
whose fame Is dimly present In very
body's memory, the Kohinoor, "The,
Mountain of Light," as the Indian imagi
nation pictured It in Its name. -. '.The,
story of the Kohinoor runs through the
history of India. In Its 'most romantic
and. tragic days, like a thread of fire,
gleaming frequently with the color of
blood I
When Its wonderful eyes first shone
Into tha eyes of men we do not know
with .nv Mr.lnv h.it -.,Mnn .... I
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played a part in tha heroic scenes de
scribed In tha Indian epic, the Mshab
harata. It may have been as big as an
egg originally, for it la said to have
weighed 793 carats when It made its first
appearance In recorded history, in the
time of Ala-ed-Dln, the Ottoman con
queror, who took It to Delhi In the four
teenth century. He la said to have ob
tained It from a rajah named Malwa,
whoso family had possessed it for ages.
In 1KB Baoer, descendant of Tamerlane
and Oengls, captured It at Agra.
According to historical statements It
had. by that time been greatly diminished
In aise by the operations of diamond cut
ters, seeking to Improve its form and
brilliance. Jn 1573 the Grand Moul
showed it to the celebrated traveler
Tavemier, and then it weighed 279 carats.
In 1739 the Persian usurper. Nadir Shah,
sacked Delhi end hunted for the famous
diamond among the spoils. It had been
cunningly concealed, but a member of the
Mogul emperor's harem revealed Its hid
ing place: the said her master had It
sewed up Inside his turban. Nadir Shah
'took a humorous Instead of bloody way
to obtain it He Invited his prisoner t3
exchange turbans with him and insisted
upon It la a token of the high personal
regard which he felt for the unfortunate
monarch.
After various adventures In Persia the
great diamond was taken to Cabul, again
as the spoil of war-, and Raman Shah
was Its proud possessor for a few years
until his brother, Shuja Shah put out his
eyes and took his kingdom. But the ( glnce you ask me, I tell you thla al
Kohlnoor had disappeared, and Shuja j though I did not mean to mention It."
Advice to Lovelorn
By BXATsVXOa TAXBT AX
He is Preteetlasf Yea.
Dear Miss Fairfax: t am a giri of 10
and engaged to a man eight years my
senior. Our engagement has never been
Dubllclr announced, therefore he says it
j Is not proper that be should kiss me in
i publto when I meet or leave hliu. Won't
: i .. te .. i,t.
view correct MARY RUTH.
Tour fiance is showing a very chival
rous consideration for your good name.
Why should you parade your love, by
kissing him publicly? It would hardly be
In good taste If the world knew of your
engagement and as matters stand it
would probably cause you to be very un
kindly criticised.
That Depeada Tea.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been keep
ing company with a young man for seven
months and he acted toward me as if
he cared a great deal for me. I Intro
duced htm to a girl friend of mine and
be haa transferred his attentions to her
by calling on her and taking her out.
I have not been going wit B him for the
last two months, although we have not
quarreled over this. Lately he has been
calling on ua and has tried to force hi
attentions on me, but I have Ignorea
him BfciATRiCH.
If you don'i lovs hlra you are doing
right. If you do love him It Is a good
plsn to punish him by Ignoring him, but
don't carry your resentment to such
extremes that you will lose hint. Hav
ing discovered that he made a mistake
be may never be so faithless again. .
A "For bale" ad will turn aecond-iiaad
furniture Into cash.
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could not fmJ It, until one day an officer
happened to scratch his hand on the
plaater wall of the room In which Raman
was confined. lie looked closely and
uw a piercing gleam. Further examina
tion revealed the Kohinoor where Raman
had embedded it.
From Cabul the diamond went, by dev
ious, and sometimes Moody, ways to La
hore, and It was there when tha Infant
monarch Phalees Btngh In 1A9 surren
dered his crown and kingdom to tha Eng
lish, and sent the. Kohinoor as a token
of his submission to Queen Victoria.
U Vlrjrlnla Terhnne Van De Water.
(Copyright. 1915, Star Company.)
One of the hardest problems I have
had to face In my married lite la try
ing to reconcile my duty to my hus
band with that to my mother.
Looked at calmly and dispassionately,
I know the fault is not my parent's. Her
one desire is for my happiness, although
It Is entirely natural that she should
long to have me with her often. Tet my
husband regards this wish of hers aa a
form Of selfishness and feel that my In
dulgence of her Is weakness on my part
and equivalent to neglect of him.
Last month when my mother was 111
and I ran In to sea her several times each
day and the last thing at night, John
expressed bis dissatisfaction at this state
ot affairs , v
"Tour cars of her wearies you so that
you are not in a fit condition to at
tend to you regular duties," he com
plained. ' "She' Is one of my regular duties," I
I "
rejoined- "I am her only child, and It
its my right and pleasure to be of servke
ito her.
"And she Imposes upon yout" he in
sisted. "I ready think that a man has
some rights. Tou women are fond of
quoUng to us, 'For tills cause' shall a
man leave father and mother and cleave
unto his wife.' But It Is only fair for a
wife to do the same thing."
"Don't IT" I asked. "Would you re
spect me If I neglected the mother to
whom I owe a debt of gratitude I can
never repay?"
"Tou mean for caring for you when
you were a kid?" John queried. "Well,
since she brought you Into the world,
that U the least she could do. I do not
see that she had dons such lots for you
that you need be her slave now."
I looked at him In wonder at the ease
with which man forgets. I hesitated to
remind him that two years after our mar
riage, when be failed In business, my
mother lent him money to put him on his
feet again, and that she would not allow
hlra to pay Interest on this loan.
"Tou are like a son to me, she told
him then. "I have no boy of my own,
and I feel as if you belonged to me."
Even now she Is paying the tuition of
our 10-year-old lad at the private school
to which John went as a boy, and where
he haa always longed to have his son
go. The boy Is my father's namesake,
and my mother never forgets this.
"Well, what are your thoughts about?"
John demanded, as I kept silence while
I pondered on these facts.
"I was Just thinking." I said, "of the
'tamny obligations we are under to mother.
"Obligations!" be exclaimed. "It that
I what you call them? I don'tl I suppose
you mean that she helped me with money
at one time. Well. Well. I paid It back.
And she is paying Lawrence's tuition
but she Insisted on doing that. I never
asked her to send the lad to a private
school. I always supposed he would have
to go to a public school as thousands of
ee
By EDGAR LTCXEK LARKIN.
Q. "I have before me The Handbook
of the Lick Observatory,' by Edward
8. Holden, 18U. which was Issued Just
before the Installation of the thlrty-slx-Inch
telescope. Quoting pp. U-i, under
the heading "Motion of the Star In Line
of Sight': "Vega Is approaching us at the
late of 45 miles per second; Pollux, 40
miles; Aroturua, 41 miles, etc, etc; while
Castor Is receding at M miles; Regulus,
30 miles; Frocyon, 41 miles per second,
etc
" 'No adequate Idea of the delicacy of
j the measures upon which these results
. rf-Mlui r.n h. h.r. Hvm but dlie.t.
I .. - ; . . " .
aa they are. they can be trusted. Inde
pendent observations at Oreenwlen and
Potsdam agree.'
"But you have often said In The Bee
that the earth is rushing toward the giant
sun Vega at the rate of twelve miles per
second. Kindly explain thi discrepancy
In The Boe." BUHSCRlllER, Pacific
Orove Ca.. June 22. 1915.
A. This aaa in W-amltnt times In
science. I read the work of Prof. E.
HoUmm at publication .and It was thaa
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The famous atone was found to be badly
cut, according to European idraa, and It
contained flawa It was sent, under guard,
to Amsterdam, a special machine wan
made to recut It, and, after a few weeks
of grinding, the Duke of Wellington hav
ing started the mill, the great Kohinoor
was transformed, so that It would no
longer have teen recognised by the kings,
emperors and conquerors who, during ao
many; centuries, had fought and plotted
for Its possession.
Tha Kohinoor la now an oblong, many
facetted brilliant, about an Inch and
Why We Quarreled
other nice lads do. She loves the boy and
likes to do things for him."
' "Hut you benefit by her love for him
and us," I Insisted.
"If I do, I pay well for It In the lack
of my wife's society whenever her mother
wants her," he retorted.
Tes, only last week, when he asked me
to take a little trip to the mountains
with him, and I protested that I could
not leave the children, he said easily,
"Oh, send them over to your mother."
"They might worry her," I ventured.
"She Is not very strong now, you know."
"Nonsense! She would love to have
them. It will be a real kindness to her
to let them go there and amuse her and
get her out of herself. Of course the
nurse will accompany them, so she'll
have no work to do for them."
That is the way he regards the matter.
He takes all that my mother does for
granted, because she Is my mother and
loved me and mine. Tet he rebels if she
takes much of my time.
Another phase of the subject over which
we quarrel occasionally Is his habit of
making silly Jokes about mothers-in-law.
I consider these In welched taste as long
Science for Workers
up-to-date. But the great telescope at
Mount Hamilton had not been mounted.
Nor the complex star spectroscope, nor
the stellar-epectro-camera. nor the ao
curate determination of stellar motions.
And A. A. Mlchelson had not measured
with extreme accuracy the lengths of
waves of light; nor had extensive re
searches In unt re-ultra-violet and In
fra-red waves of radiant energy been
made.
But when the huge Lick telescope, with
its - thirty-ax-4nch perfect lenses, had
been set upon Its massive plsr of stone,
then excessively accurate photographic
researches were commenced.
Prof. W. W. Campbell put the stellar
spectroscope into a box of non-conducting
material and kept the delicate ap
paratus at a constant temperature
something new In stellar spectroscopy.
The Doppler principle of compression
and exponslit of number of wsves of
energy received in the spectroscope from
stars approai'hlng or receding was ex
plored sa never before. Faint stare In
the general direction of Vega wer photo-
if
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about If carats. Uueen Victoria had It
in a brooch. Its model, looking like a
real diamond, Is to be seen In tha ex
hibition of royal jewels in the Tower of
London. There Is no set value for these
great stones, but. Judging from prices
that have sometimes been paid, the Kohi
noor must be worth at least SMxXOOo, and
perhaps much more.
The Cullinan, found In Bouth Africa and
split Into nine bin gems, exceeds the
Kohinoor In else, but the letter's hlstorto
Interest Is unique.
three-eighths In length, and weighing
aa his wife's mother lives. But John
thinks me absurdly sensitive on this
point j
"There you go again, looking at every-'
thing through your mother's eyes, and
seeing harm and taking offense where
none in the world was meant!" he ac-
cusea. I
The strangest phase of It all Is that
he protests that he Is fond of my mother,
If this be so, why can't he be nicer to
her?
He is polite to her with a patronising
tolerance that would drive me to the
verge of exasperation were I In her place.
and which actually makes me ashamed !
of him. If aha notices It she hides from
me the knowledge that she does.
Tet he Is quick to call my attention to
any fault of hers.
"Did you notice," hs asks, 'that your
mother was cross tonight?" Or, "Why
must your mother tell the same story
over again and again?"
All of which only proves to me tho
truth of my contention that a mother's
love is on a higher plane and of a less
selfish nature than Is a husDand's. My ,
mother wants my happiness shove all
else; my husband wants me, myself.
graphed and their positions on negatives
measured with microscopes.
And likewise stars In the opposite point
In the celestial vault of night This to
detect proper motions, parallax, or an
nual displacement due to the earth's rev-
! olutlon around the sun, and to find If
those stars negr Vega were separating '
and those opposite drawing nearer, and, ,
above all, tho Intricate motions toward
and away from the aun and earth In the
line of sight
This Is one of the most inspiring works
of the hand and mind of man.
Then the stars that were moving In
every direction in opposite sides of the '
sky were compared with other stars so '
much farther awsy that their motions
could not be detected, wltb result that
our sun and Its stately retinue of planets, 1
moons, comets, asteroids and streams of '
meteors, this complex machine. Is mov
ing toward the general direction of the
star Vrga st a speed of twelve miles a
seuond.
Then this must be subtracted from the
apparent speed of Vega to five Its true
rate. Then there Is no discreps ncy.
ly ELLA WHKKLKR WILCOX.
Copyright, 1MN Star Company.
Just as every child pussies his parent
and his pastor at some period by the
query, "Who made Ood?" so periodically
Is society pussled by the following query:
Why isn't a good
man Justified In
marrying a woman
who has erred?
Judging by the
ethics of society,
such an act Is in
variably to his dis
credit. Doesn't he
deserve c r d 1 1
above and here on
earth for reclaim
ing the woman he
loves from a hope
less llfo, provided
I she wishes to be
come better? So
cial ostracism. I
know, is the price
they must often pay: The decision-of
man; not God.
Since It was man himself who first
started the Idea that woman was forever
"lost" If she erred through the emotions
or the passions, and "saved" If she
possessed no other virtue but chastity, It
would seem that he has the right to
overrule his own law, should he wish te
do so, and Uke to wife the woman whose
great mistake some man was to blame
for.
Yet, having buUt his wall, and society
having barbed U at the top, It proves to
be a perilous or, at least, uncomfortablo
undertaking when he attempts to scale It.
No long ago I heard an Intelligent and
broad-minded man assert aa a fact that
no woman who had erred, from what
ever cause or combination of causes,
could afterward, however perfectly mated
and married, become the mother of well
balanced and finely organised children.
Demanding proof. I was left with only
the sieaker's assertion. Yet some of the
most uaofut and notably worthy people
or the world have been branded by so-
, ... . ... . " 7 ,
Clety as Illegitimate," and many In-
atancea can be found of noble wives and
excellent mothers of good children who
have r.sen out of the ashes ot error to
new birth of pure womanhood.
At the same time. In every social circle
In the land, can be found spotless mothers
of reckless children who have Inherited
the father's vices. There Is one reason
why It is more difficult for a man to re
claim an erring woman than for a woman
to reclaim an erring man. Because of the
two codes of morals man has made for
the two sexes, the woman who falls
usually loses her selt-reapect sooner than
does the man and falls to a lower depth
of mental abasement
She becomes more reckless - and It Is
more difficult for har to reform. The
laws of the world render the undertaking
peculiarly painful and she frequently re
turns to her old life of (oily In despair
when all her aspirations and inclinations
are for a better course of conduct.
The best thing for a man to do who
contemplates marrying and reforming a
repents nt woman Is to take her to new
scenes and surround her with new friends
and to let the mantle of silence cover
her past. In no way should the subject
be referred to after he makes the woman
his wife, and by every act and word
should ha endeavor to build a new life
for her and to obliterate the old from her
thoughts.
Unless ho can do this he had best not
l attempt to achieve tha Imnoa.lhl. ne in
j force the world to accept her. And to live
socially ostracised in the world Is to ag
gravate the canker of memory to a viru
lent cancer, which destroys happiness.
' ijiliV nmt snr "
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A young girl In Nsples eloped with her
lover. hn rtcserted her without legallxlns
the tie thHt bound them. She had re
turned to her home and was forgiven and
received by her parents. But her brother
Insisted that only by her death could the
family honor be cleansed, and when the
unhappy girl refused to commit suicide,
the brother stabbed her and then reported
his act to the authorities, followed by an
admiring throng.
This Is the result of old world tradition,
and very mouldy and ancient the Ideas
are which underlie It.
It Is the groundless snd foundless
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In making two codes of morality ono
which renders his own moral derelictions
mere Incidents In his career, and one
which renders a lapse of virtue on her
part a crime to be paid for only by her
death.
This double code of morals haa kept
morgues and potter's fields and Insane
asylums and the ranks of erring women
full for centuries; It haa been the rock
In woman's path to progress.
It has hindered many a weak-willed
but good and lovtng-souled woman from
turning her one error and living a worthy
and useful life afterward. Jt has caused
the creed of Christ to be a mockery In
thousands of churches founded In Ht.a
name, yet violating Hie words to the
Magdalene: "Oo and sin no mora." it
stones the woman sinner with atones of
cruel words and scornful glanoaa.
It Is a theory which has been put be
fore the world by men and maintained
by them. In tha old world It still pre
vails, but In our own land, thanks to
progress, the erring woman need not com
mit suicide to prove to society that she
Is repentant. She can Join the great
army of the world's workers and make
herself useful and compel the respect of
her fellow men and women.
She must suffer always with the scars
of her mistakes, since it Is her nature to
feel greater remorse than man feels for
his errors,; It Is seldom aha reaches the
point of boasting her sins and follies as
he Is prone to do. But tho avenues of
labor and forgetfulness are open to her
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.here, and as nowhere else In the world
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and the freedom of her environment
helps to sink her mistakes Under the bil
lows of time. - Meanwhile In America, as
nowhere else on earth, men are begin
ning to be made to feel , ashamed .of
licentious conduct
Recently two men of wealth and high
social position were ostracised by clubs
and driven from society for betraying
two young, trusting girla At a seashore
resort a young man found himself coldly
reoelvcd because of some unsavory , si
rs pad en In which he had figured. Sn
Utile by little the two codes of, morals
are being welded Into one.
Men are coming to realise that some
thing resembling decency ' la demanded
of them, and women are coming to real
ise that one false step does not deprive
them of the right to live and work and
recent.
Suicides from despairing' Iov and bitter
sorrow, will continue to occur as kmc as
women V. Intense temperaments .and
weak will power continue to exist In the
world, but when a woman wants to. live
and begin life over the whole world will
In time reach a standard of enlighten
ment and humanity which will render
such situations as the one under discus
sion Impossible.
America haa taken the first steps for
ward In this new code of morals, and
older lands will gradually ' follow, as In
all other reforms. It will be slow, as
great reforms In thought always are, but
It will come as surely aa the change haa
come which makes the burning of witches
and the branding of the scarlet . tetter
Impossible today.
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